The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

Quote by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Topics: Life Quotes

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century...

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century...

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him...

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him...

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards...

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards...

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being...

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being...

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful...

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful...

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood...

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood...

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is...

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is...

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent,...

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent,...

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is...

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is...

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains...

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains...

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the...

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the...

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved

God is so good. He knows where a person will be happy, where they can...

God is so good. He knows where a person will be happy, where they can...